Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to keep your summer spirit. Even if September
Speaker 1: signals the end of summer, the best parts of summer
Speaker 1: can stay with you all year long. So I recently
Speaker 1: encountered the phrase summer spirit while reading Laura Lisa's new book,
Speaker 1: Beach Life. As her family neared their beach community, one
Speaker 1: of her daughters remarked that I can feel my summer spirit.
Speaker 1: The little girl described that it feels like happiness and
Speaker 1: brightness and it's wild. I love this image. I think
Speaker 1: many of us harbor some sort of summer spirit in
Speaker 1: our psychees too. In adulthood, summer isn't necessarily all that
Speaker 1: different from the rest of the year. We still have
Speaker 1: to work, we still have to handle our household responsibilities.
Speaker 1: But if you grew up with extended periods of time
Speaker 1: off from school, the season just feels different. It feels
Speaker 1: more relaxed, but also a little untamed. Labor Day in
Speaker 1: the US tends to mean the end of the summer season.
Speaker 1: Even so, I think it's possible to keep a summer spirit.
Speaker 1: It just means asking what would make life feel full
Speaker 1: of happiness and brightness and perhaps a little wild. Maybe
Speaker 1: it means taking a last minute weekend trip to visit
Speaker 1: a friend sometime and thus squeezing a little extra bit
Speaker 1: of vacation into a busy schedule. Maybe it means eating
Speaker 1: a picnic. Plenty of fall days are still lovely, so
Speaker 1: why not have dinner on the porch. Maybe it's doing
Speaker 1: something you've never tried before, or trying to spend more
Speaker 1: time outside. The good news, well, and the bad news too,
Speaker 1: is that time keeps passing, and so before we know it,
Speaker 1: it will be summer again. Perhaps come next June that
Speaker 1: sense of summer possibility will on its own just reappear.
Speaker 1: But even as the weather gets colder and the days
Speaker 1: get darker, now the wildness of summer doesn't have to
Speaker 1: dwindle to nothing. Just ask what would add happiness and
Speaker 1: brightness to ordinary days. If you embrace those adventures, then
Speaker 1: you will probably be on a good track. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to before breakfast.
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